London Underground Tube Diary - Going Underground's Blog Abandoned Places 12 Fantastic Floating Cities and Artificial Islands When you imagine an island nation or floating city, you probably conjure up images of a peaceful, breathtakingly beautiful paradise where locals lounge around in hammocks, frozen cocktails in hand. But real-life artificial islands and floating communities are far more interesting than that, from rickety abandoned oil industry communities in the middle of the ocean to a fort-turned-floating-hotel fit for a Bond villain. Of course, there’s luxury too, like multi-million dollar oceanic condos that double as tax havens. Here are 12 of the world’s most amazing man-made island dwellings. Boat City of Aberdeen Harbor, Hong Kong (images via: Karsten Petersen) Centuries ago, the boat city of Aberdeen Harbor was a haven for pirates, and the floating city itself hasn’t changed much since then despite the ultra-modern skyscrapers that have sprung up around it. Deserted Floating City of Oily Rocks (images via: WebUrbanist) No Man’s Land Fort (images via: The Daily Mail) Sealand, Bizarre Island Micronation
Ghost towns | Our world - animals, beautiful nature, techics, hi Disaster comes in differing dark shades of bleak and deadly flavors of horrendous dismay, such as environmental, economic, and natural. Across the globe, there are hundreds of ghost towns and places which were abandoned due to disasters. Chernobyl Disaster In 1986, Reactor 4 exploded at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Four workers were killed instantly. Prypiat, Ukraine The nearby city of Pripyat, Ukraine, was home to the workers of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The Chernobyl explosion happened at around one in the morning when most of the 50,000 people in Pripyat were sleeping. 40 hours later, residents were ordered to evacuate. Pripyat had one hospital, 3 clinics, 21 schools, 3 cultural centers, 10 gyms, 10 shooting galleries, 3 indoor pools, and one railway station. Pripyat is still mostly abandoned. Centralia, Pennsylvania Welcome to hell ? Most of the buildings were lost to fires or acts of nature. Varosha, Cyprus Rybachiy Nuclear Submarine Base The people were ordered to leave. Volc?
eric holubow: urban exploration photographer Single-Serving Photo Infiltration NEVERENDS - Exploration Urbaine - Urban Exploration - Friches // Urban Exploration-More than a walk in the park « The Thicketeer Yesterday I made mention of one of my favorite subjects, Urban Exploration. For those of you who were intrigued, this is the post that will answer some of your questions and (hopefully) give you some new ones. I cant really recall where I first heard about urban exploration (to be abbreviated as UE from now on). I was probably playing around on google on one of my more restless days, searching for things like “adventure” and “explore”. Either way, I stumbled my way onto a page that mentioned UE and gave a brief description of it. I thought to myself, “Hey, I like to explore! The first step for me was a specific google search. Does that not sound freaking AWESOME? At this point my interest level went from “Hey, this is neat” to “OHMYGOD, how do I do this?” Urban Exploration, as I understand it, is quite a simple concept. There is a strong code of ethics behind UE that follows some other organization’s motto quite closely. Neat, huh? Now to pepper you with links and resources. Like this:
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